INFO LA DEPECHE. Toulouse: Murders at the Izards, suspects betrayed by their conversations
At the beginning of the week, the judicial police placed in police custody several suspects in assassinations in the summer of 2020, at Izards in Toulouse. With as evidence, unquestionable recordings. Three suspects were indicted on Thursday, March 17.
Figures from the world of Toulouse drug traffickers were taken into custody at the start of the week by the judicial police. Often cited and suspected, especially in the case that destabilized the Izards in June 2020, most of them are already indicted, whether for drug trafficking or money laundering. Many already result in detention.
But this time it’s about the murders that bloodied the Izards district in the summer of 2020 against the backdrop of a war between gangs for the control of drug trafficking. In particular the assassination of a young boy who was shot dead on the evening of August 25, 2020 when a commando from the La Reynerie district landed at Izards and fired heavy weapons.
Chased by the police, the fugitives were intercepted after a chase on the device. This arrest in flagrante delicto already weighed heavily on the shoulders of these three individuals. Only with the transcription of their telephone exchanges, possible after the discovery of a server which contained thousands of hours of conversation, the Toulouse PJ investigators recovered new elements. Writings that would seem difficult to dispute. And even photos with hooded and armed individuals, ready to take action…
Indicted on Thursday for “voluntary homicide in an organized gang”, a 40-year-old man, long considered one of the bosses of traffic in the Izards, even if he seemed to hold back in recent years, was placed, again, under warrant of deposit. Another individual, considered to be one of his lieutenants, was also indicted and imprisoned.
This drawer investigation is not clause since another assassination is also the subject of police custody. A settling of accounts on September 7, 2020 when a man was riddled with bullets. He is with his company in a parking lot in a friend’s Mercedes. Moreover, it was very probably not him who was the subject of this other “contract”. A personality from the northern districts should be presented to the investigating judge in this case this Friday at the end of his police custody.
More than €140,000 discovered in a car
And as part of this operation, the police carried out another big coup: the cash seizure of more than €140,000 in a car. Savings ? The user of the vehicle, which also describes himself with luxury watches, seeks to convince the investigators. The latter believe more in the benefits of cocaine trafficking. Officials would deal with it. It should also be presented this Friday to the investigating judge who has been working on this case for more than a year but which now also targets the importation of narcotics.
The defense lawyers, Mes Caroline Marty-Daudibertières and Alexandre Parra-Bruguière, remain, for the moment, very silent.